windows 8 popup location

Question

While porting a WPF application over to a Windows 8 instance (x64) runing under VMware, I found that all of the popups are mis-aligned against what they are supposed to be.

Answer 1

Further investigation shows that there is a setting inside the Control Panel: ControlPanel->Hardware and Sound->Tablet PC (the node name maybe not exactly match since I am using a non-English version of Windows 8). There is a setting for the hand using which the user prefers to write.

One must select "I prefer writing using left hand" in order for it to place the popup in the "right position" (without using the solution above) according to the manual for .net framework. This assumption can't be right at all, at least for destop applications!